Does Joomla have a Link to the Latest Version? Wordpress for example has a link to https://wordpress.org/latest.zip , so I know I can always download that zip and get the latest version.
I am working on ansible script to automatically setup a server and install joomla and I need to keep it simple so I would like to spesify a link or api call or something to always get the latest joomla version zip.
Any help appreciated. David
good question - it is certainly not as easy as wordpress.
You can download the latest version using ansible in the following way:
Download the XML file you mentioned to your local machine:
- name: download latest joomla packages list to local machine
tags: joomlanew
get_url:
url: https://update.joomla.org/core/sts/extension_sts.xml
dest: "{{ role_path }}/scripts/extension_sts.xml"
force: yes
delegate_to: 127.0.0.1
Run a python script to parse this XML to find the latest package zip file:
- name: find latest joomla version
tags: joomlanew
command: python ./latest_joomla.py
args:
chdir: "{{ role_path }}/scripts"
delegate_to: 127.0.0.1
register: xmlresp
You can then use {{ xml.resp.stdout }} in ansible as the input for your download code:
- name: download & unzip joomla
tags: joomlanew
unarchive:
src: "{{ xmlresp.stdout }}"
dest: /home/username/public_html/
remote_src: yes
mode: 0755
FYI the code in th python script to parse the XML would be:
from xml.dom import minidom
xmldoc = minidom.parse('extension_sts.xml')
itemlist = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('downloadurl')
last=(len(itemlist))-1
print (itemlist[last].firstChild.data)